Dumb things - paul kelly

Bow River

Live at Billboard 1981

Oh No Not You Again (Live at Billboard 1981)

Richard Clapton - Girls On The Avenue

Sonia Dada- You don't treat me no good no more

My Island Home

My Island Home (Gamilaraay)

Go Bush!

The Aboriginal Art Museum Utrecht (AAMU)

The Aboriginal Art Museum Utrecht (AAMU) is the only museum in Europe which is completely devoted to contemporary Australian Aboriginal art. The museum offers artists of Aboriginal origin a platform to show their work to a European public and hopes to give greater publicity and respect to this quite unknown genre. Next to calling for attention the museum also wants to inform and teach her visitors about contemporary Aboriginal art. By placing it next to modern Western art the visitor is challenged to start looking for similarities and differences and form an opinion on both artforms.

The AAMU concentrates specifically on the visual arts. However, some attention is given to other artistic expressions, music being one of them. In an educational program for youth an interactive, interdisciplinary approach towards art is given. At the Sound-Bites-Art experience one gets the opportunity to look at art in a different way with the help of an MP3-player. It is the idea that different musical genres each have their own influence on the perception of a work of art. Some attention is paid as well to the more authentic form of Aboriginal music, which is very important in the original religious culture: on demand didgeridoo workshops are offered.

This musical fragment is a song of the band Yothu Yindi. The members of this band are Aboriginals of the Yolngu tribe, coming from the northeast coast of Australia. The special thing about this band is the way they mix the specific sounds, customs and instruments of traditional Aborinigal music with elements of modern Western rock’n’roll. The result of fusion is a unique musical form, of which the source goes back for thousands of years, but which sounds modern and contemporary all the same. With this approach Yothu Yindi can be called the musical equivalent of the AAMU. 

Yothu Yindi - Djäpana

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